Quarter 4

Essential Question: What purpose does music serve in our lives?

Essential Question: How does understanding the music preferences of others help us to have a greater understanding and connection to them?

Essential Question: What are ways that musicians express themselves when performing music?

Essential Question: How do musicians grow and become accomplished in music?

By the end of Quarter 4:

• I can compose rhythms using quarter notes and rests, eighth notes, sixteenth notes, half notes, half rests and whole notes.
• I can sight read rhythms using quarter notes and rests, eighth notes, sixteenth notes, half notes, half rests and whole notes.
• I can match pitch and sing unison music using good technique and posture.
• I can identify different uses for music in various cultures.
• I can explain how music is beneficial in their daily lives.
• I can discuss how music can bring people together.
• I can discuss how musicians express themselves when performing music.

Learning activities include sight reading lines of rhythm while playing percussion instruments; singing a variety of styles of music; station activities to expose students to various composers, styles of music and music from other cultures; review games; composing rhythms and melodies on the whiteboard individually and in groups; and websites that allow student to create and be creative with music.

Wisconsin Standards for Music

MG1.Cr.5.i: Explore rhythmic, melodic and harmonic phrases.

MG1.Cr.6.i: Improvise rhythms and melodies with voice, instruments and a variety of sound sources to add interest to a song.

MG.1.Cr.7.i: Compose short pieces using standard and/or alternative notation to document personal musical ideas.

MG2.P.6.i: Explore and demonstrate an understanding of the elements of music by reading, singing and/or playing an instrument.

MG2.P.7.i: Demonstrate expressive qualities in performance.

MG3.R.6.i: Express musical ideas through verbal, movement, written or artistic means.

MG3.R.7.i: Utilize appropriate music terminology in the evaluation/reflection of music performances.

MG4.Cn.6.i: Explain how music relates to self, others and the world.

MG4.Cn.7.i: Examine and evaluate musical connections, similarities and differences.